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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Q. D. Leavis | Queenie Roth (later QDL
) began her university career by going up to Girton College
on a scholarship. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 85-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | At the beginning of her last year as an undergraduate, Queenie Roth (later QDL
) met her future husband, Cambridge don and critic F. R. Leavis
, at a Girton College
tea. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 100 |
Education | Q. D. Leavis | At about the time she was married QDL
began her three years' doctoral work on fiction of popular culture at Girton College, Cambridge
, as an Ottolie Hancock Research Fellow. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 101 |
Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | She published several more pieces in the same journal, the last in September 1925, just before she went up to Girton College
: A Street Orator, The Philosophy of Examinations, The Dream Pedlar... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | Though she subordinates it to her attack on English aestheticism, Lee also mounts a critique on associated hetero- and homosexual practices of the time. Anne soon rejects the amorous intentions of Richard, whose passion was... |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | |
Reception | Rosamond Lehmann | These were just her top honours among many. She appeared on radio and tv programmes, acquired an honorary degree from the University of Leeds
and an honorary fellowship from Girton
, and officially opened the... |
Education | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
went up to Girton College, Cambridge University
, on a scholarship to read English Literature, joining her elder sister, Helen, who was already there. Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press. 7 Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 39 |
Education | Ada Leverson | AL
was educated at home in French, German, and (by a Girton College
graduate) Classics. |
Textual Features | Amy Levy | Based on George MacDonald
's fairy-tale Double-Story, it concerns a princess who has everything except happiness. It is written with panache: the governess is named Girton
ia to signify the excellence of her education... |
Education | Candia McWilliam | After finishing at St George's, she sought to go to boarding school as a means of escape, and following a rupture and detachment from my father's house she entered Sherborne School for Girls
, an... |
Health | Candia McWilliam | CMW
's struggle with alcoholism began at a very young age. In her memoir, she recalls her first taste of alcohol, a Dutch drink called advocaat, after a church service. McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter. Jonathan Cape. 110 |
Occupation | Marion Moss | One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton
(1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
and George Eliot
. She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies... |
Education | Henrietta Müller | In her late twenties, HM
became one of the first batch of students to study at Girton College
, Cambridge, despite some opposition from her father
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 428 Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press. 164-5 |
Education | Henrietta Müller | HM
took a third in the moral science tripos at Girton College
, Cambridge. A third means a third-class honours or one level above a passdegree: respectable but not particularly distinguished. In thiscase taking... |
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